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Jacoby Ellsbury set a new Red Sox record on Thursday night by stealing five bases, but two of them stand out as particularly meaningful. Those are the two that came in the sixth inning after he was pegged in the back by Phillies reliever Jeremy Horst, prompting the umpire to warn both teams.

That brought John Farrell out to argue the call, and NESN Nation’s Dan Duquette is siding with the Boston manager on this one. See why in the above video and share your thoughts in the comments below.

I found it curious. It almost like the UMP was protecting and supporting the pitcher for his actions. Who knows maybe ( don't hold your breathe ) MLB will do their job and protect the batter by stepping in and suspending or fine the pitcher anyway despite the umps lack of fair play as he made it clear he believed it was intentional from the warnings. Hoping we do not get a bad crew for the Yankees series- seems umps this year are determined to get their name in the paper. Hoping they keep their hands off of the New York series and just let the teams play with fair strike zones and sound calls.

How do you know what the umpire thought? Did he tell us? I would be the first to say that we've seen some terrible umprin behind the plate this seasn (and last season) BUT an umpire's call is final in 99.9% of the cases and that's nothing new. How do we know the ump was taking some preventive measures against a spiral of retaliation by either or both teams? Life ain't perfect anywhere!